On Fri, Dec 15, 2006, Rod K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> We have a legacy system running qmail/vpopmail with a couple thousand 
> users that we'd like to migrate.  With vpopmail having an aliased 
> domain, the user can sign in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Due to some legacy issues, we have 3 domains 
> aliased together and various users using any of the 3 aliased domains in 
> their login.

If you can convince people to log in without the domain, then you can
write aliases for each user in the form 'username@' -> 'username' which
will catch  mail for each user on every domain. This may introduce
migration headaches in the future if you have to re-segregate your logins
by domain, say if your organization merged with another organization.

> I've thought of creating a view in PG that would be the union between 
> dbmail_users and a select joining dbmail_users and dbmail_aliases that 
> would return userid as the alias.  This would allow a login using an 
> alias.  Of course, I'd have to rename the dbmail_users and give the view 
> that name, along with some rules to handle INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE on the 
> view.

That would be an interesting approach, and I would be excited to see if it
worked well for you. Certainly this would be a good way to leverage the
database to do some interesting integration work for us.

In fact, I'd even like to think that this would be a *preferred* way to
approach integration with an existing login table.

Aaron
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